Necktie



March 2, 1937.

J. WEISBAUM NECKTIE INYENT disc/f /4/5/5540/11.

1 UL I ATTORNEYS.

Filed Feb. 27. 1935 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE NECKTIE .lack Weisbaum, Cincinnati, Ohio, assignor to The Weisbaum Bros. Brower Company, Cincinnati, Ohio, a corporation of Ohio Application February 27, 1935, Serial No. 8,507

3 Claims. (C1. 2-145l My invention relates to improvements in neckties, and particularly neckties having clasps for securing the folds of the tie in position covering the opening in the shirt front of the wearer.

In my Patents Nos. 1,573,885 and 1,644,863, I have disclosed clasps which are permanently fixed in a certain position on the underneath surface of the outer fold of the tie. While such clasps serve their purpose adequately, there is a tendency for them to hold the tie too closely to the shirt front, so that when the wearer bends his chest and neck, the tie has a tendency to pull, which is either a cause of discomfort to the wearer or tends to release the clasp from position in the opening in the shirt. Another disadvantage is that due to different folding operations with successive adjustments of the tie, the clasp has to be adjusted in the shirt front opening in different positions and frequently the position in which the clasp is located is opposite the button and button hole so that the clasp cannot be securely adjusted in position.

A disadvantage of the clasps which have been heretofore used is the tendency of the silk or other clasp formed of two halves with rounded ends, one of which substantially encloses a portion of the other so that there are no rough edges or corners; and to eliminate the pintle entirely so that there are no projecting ends or corners for the material of the tie or of the shirt to catch and tear on.

I propose to mount a clasp close to the end of the loose stitching either on the actual end of of the thread or in a loop of the thread adjacent its end.

Referring to the drawing:-

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the large end of a tie having my clasp mounted in one manner in which I propose to mount the same.

Figure 2 is a plan view of my novel type of clasp.

Figure 3 is a longitudinal section of the clasp shown in plan in Figure 2, taken on the line 3-3 thereof.

I have shown the end I, of the large end of a necktie composed of a body portion 2, a layer of woven fabric resilient lining 3, connected to the body portion by means of a loosely stitched material of the tie, or of the shirt to catch on the thread 4, which has a loop 5 adjacent its end, g5 sharp edges or corners thereof; and to catch which passes through an eyelet I4 in a clasp on the ends of the pintle on which the clasp halves generally indicated at l. The loose stitching and the clasp spring is hinged. then continues through the last opening in the In the Langsdorf Patent #1,447,090, improvetie and has an exposed end 8 with a knot 9 in it ments in neckties are disclosed in which there is at the end. 30 a body portion with a woven fabric resilient lin- The clasp illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3 comprises ing connected therewith by loose stitching. It an upper plate I0 and a lower plate II posiis particularly in the manufacture of this type of tioned opposite each other so that the jaw portie that my novel mounting for a clasp finds its tions I1 and I8 will register. The lower plate greatest adaptability. Il is rounded and curved at the end I2 opposite 35 It is the object of my invention to provide a the jaw portion so as to almost curve back on itnecktie in which a clasp of desired type may be self. The upper plate Ill is shorter than the secured to the loose stitching with which the relower plate II and the end opposite the jaw Il silient lining is secured in position in the tie. is also curved at I3 but the length is shorter The purpose of the loose stitching is to prevent than the curved portion I2 on plate II. By this 40 distortion of the fabric during the adjustment construction when the two plates I0 and II are of the tie, because if the lining and tie are implaced in position the end I3 of the upper plate movably secured together, one fabric will stretch I0 will lie partially within the curve l2 of the a different amount than the other, which will lower plate II. There is a spring I6 in the shape result in a wrinkled appearance of the tie. The of a attened Z which urges the two jaws I'l' and 45 ordinary method of securing a resilient lining I8 together and which also holds the two plates within a tie as taught in the Langsdorf patent I0 and II together. The upper plate Ill has two is to extend the end of the stitching thread beears folded back and around the upper portion yond the last opening in the fabric of the tie body, I9 of the spring IB. While the lower plate Il and to tie a knot say one inch from the last has two ears folded back around the lower por- 50 opening through which the thread passes, so that tion 20 of the spring I6. These ears are so pothe tie has an exposed end of thread of substansitioned on the two halves that the spring I6 holds tially one inch in length with the knot on the these two halves in position and at the same end of it. time urges the jaws I'l and I8 together. In

A further object of my invention is to provide a 55 making my lower plate II, as by stamping it out,

I preferably form a shield 2| thereon. This shields runs up on the two sides of the rear end l 2 of the lower plate I l and thus the rear end of the lower portion of the clasp substantially encloses 5 a portion of the edge of the upper plate l0 of the clasp. A small hole or eyelet I4 may be placed in the end portion l2 of the lower plate H to permit the threading of the clasp onto the loop 5, and the upper plate l0 may be provided with a l0 boss l5 to facilitate manipulation thereof. It is apparent from the above description that my novel clasp is a series of curved surfaces partially enclosing each other with no projecting pintle or sharp and ragged edges or corners. The

l5 spring of the clasp acts as the means for holding 5?() have further provided means which will practioally insure there being an adequate amount of exposed end to the thread, which avoids the likelihood of the loose stitching thread being pulled tight and then causing subsequent strains on the fabric during further adjustments of the tie.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In combination a necktie having a body portion and a resilient lining connected therewith by loose stitching and clasping means carried on a loose part of said stitching.

2. In combination a necktie having a body portion and a resilient lining connected therewith, loose stitching connecting said body and lining, said stitching having an exposed end portion with clasping means secured to said exposed end portion.

3. In combination a necktie body and lining with loose stitching connecting said body and lining, clasping means mounted on said loose stitching, said clasping means having a portion formed as an eyelet with the loose stitching passing through said eyelet.

' JACK WEISBAUM. 

